{"id":864922,"date":"2026-08-20T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:28:23","slug":"man-on-canada-wide-driving-ban-arrested-after-fleeing-police-in-dildo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864922\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on Canada-Wide Driving Ban Arrested After Fleeing Police in Dildo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rcmp-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Man on Canada-Wide Driving Ban Arrested After Fleeing Police in Dildo\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A 54-year-old man who was on a Canada-wide driving ban has been charged with flight from police after officers attempted to pull him over in Dildo. <\/p>\n<p>A patrol officer was flagged down by a concerned citizen around 8:00 p.m. last Thursday who reported that a dirt bike was being driven in a dangerous manner along Front Road in the town. <\/p>\n<p>The officer spotted the bike described and attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver refused to pull over and instead tore off at a high speed. <\/p>\n<p>Officers did not purse the vehicle in the interest of public safety. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday police received another complaint about the same person who was heading down Anderson Cove Road toward New Harbour. <\/p>\n<p>Police arrested 54-year-old Barry Martin of Dildo and seized his dirt bike. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s scheduled to appear in court next month on charges of flight from police, dangerous driving, two counts of driving while prohibited and two counts of failing to comply with a probation order.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) A 54-year-old man who was on a Canada-wide driving ban has been charged with flight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,41,39,42,40,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-864922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}